Friedel-Volterra Prize 2019

The SIF-EPS Friedel-Volterra Prize for the year 2019 has been awarded to Professor Cristiano Ciuti (Laboratoire Matériaux et Phénomènes Quantiques, Université de Paris et CNRS, France) with the following citation:

For outstanding contributions to light-matter interactions and cavity quantum electrodynamics in the ultrastrong coupling regime.

The formal Friedel-Volterra Prize award ceremony will take place on 14 September 2020 in Milan, Italy, during the opening ceremony of the 106th SIF National Congress.

The Friedel-Volterra Prize has been jointly established in 2016 by the Italian Physical Society (SIF) together with the Société Française de Physique (SFP) with the aim to commemorate the two eminent scientists as well as to strengthen the relationship between the two Societies and it is awarded to a physicist involved in some Italian-French collaboration, in recognition of distinguished work in Physics research carried out within the past 10 years.

More information: here.